T-Mobile and the Greenlining Institute each filed letters at the...
T-Mobile and the Greenlining Institute each filed letters at the FCC on T-Mobile’s proposed combination with MetroPCS. “We believe it’s urgent that the FCC put on the brakes and not fast-track this deal,” said Greenlining Energy and Telecommunications Policy Director…
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Stephanie Chen. “The companies’ delaying tactics and efforts to keep crucial information from consumer groups raise serious concerns about the truthfulness of the claimed public interest benefits of the proposed deal. Our initial review of the confidential documents they finally handed over indicates that those materials don’t support some of their claims, and in some cases contradict them.” The FCC should ignore the group’s objections, T-Mobile said. On March 8, “over three months after the close of the FCC’s established comment period, The Greenlining Institute filed an ex parte letter asserting, for the first time that the … proposed transaction would harm the public interest and that the Commission should deny the application,'” T-Mobile said. “Greenlining provides no justification for its failure to comply with the Commission’s established deadlines for opposing or commenting on the proposed transaction and utterly fails in its effort to blame the Applicants for its own tardiness."